Cincinnati zoo steps on tallywhacker, avoids shooting self in foot

telner

telner

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Joined 06-09-2008

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Joined 06-09-2008

Posted: 02 December 2008 13:28

The Cincinnati Zoo’s short-lived partnership with the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum came to a halt just a couple days after it started. Joint tickets, packages to events at both institutions and so on.

Then someone raised a flag, and the shit storm commenced.

On November 30, 2008, biologist and blogger P. Z. Myers complained about the promotion at his blog Pharyngula, writing, “the Cincinnati Zoo has betrayed its mission and its trust in a disgraceful way, by aligning themselves with a creationist institution that is a laughing stock to the rest of the world, and a mark of shame to the United States,” and urging his readers to write to the zoo to “point out the conflict between what they are doing and what their goal as an educational and research institution ought to be.” Other bloggers echoed his call, and the zoo was evidently flooded with calls and e-mails, prompting it to cancel the promotion because of the uproar. No refunds will be necessary, since no packages of tickets had been sold.

Good for Dr. Myers. Good for those of you who called or wrote the zoo.